Joachim Durchholz jo at durchholz.org
Mon Oct 22 16:33:50 EDT 2007

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George Neuner schrieb:
>> 5. This is arguable and trivial, but i think TeX judged as a computer
>> language in particular its syntax, on esthetical grounds, sucks in
>> major ways.
> 
> No one except you thinks TeX is a "computer language".

But it is.
It's Turing-complete.
And yes, it sucks in major ways.
But no, I don't hold that against Knuth. It was designed in days when 
domain-specific languages didn't have a roughly standardized syntax.

(Truth remains truth, regardless of who's upholding it.)

Regards,
Jo

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